Strongest class/job lore wise?

[shinros]

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Isn't how you got the soul crystal by picking it off a dead DRK who was bested by a single Knight? Not even a Paladin? I can't imagine their magick being that powerful, granted maybe the Knight was really fucking good, but it seems like he was just a regular temple knight.

Well technically a certain dark knight npc upon fighting him/her starts throwing out diabolos moves aka gravity force and lets not forget flare. I assume dark knights have the same power source as black mages but instead they call it the "abyss" instead of the void. Now I am not really entering this discussion because you can't really say which class is the "strongest".

[Cilia]

In terms of raw destructive potential, BLM/SMN is always going to be at the top. WHM is dangerous, but only in terms of prolonged widespread use of the art draining too much aether.

Every other class is more or less even, though DRG (martial fighters with the power of dragons) and DRK (martial fighters with the power of darkness) probably have a slight edge.

[Ferrasper]

I would say machinist for the simple fact we are inventors. Who is to say we won't make a nuclear aether weapon that could dry the planet up in seconds. Also, a bullet travels faster then a fireball.

[Atoli]

Also, a bullet travels faster then a fireball.

That's the thing with magic though - it travels as fast as the one who throws it wants it to. If you really want to get down to it...since no actual substance is burning, the only thing traveling through the air is pure energy (in form of heat and light). No bullet can travel at the speed of light because there will always be air friction no matter how aerodynamic you make your bullet.

(But yeah, of course in general mages are slower than melees because they first have to focus and bend the magic to their will, also known as 'casting the spell'.)

About inventions though: A nuclear aether weapon is not part of the lore. There is no hint on MST being able to invent that kind of thing, about the materials existing that would be required, etc.
I can also go ahead and say "BRD is the strongest class because they could make up a song that makes every living being on the planet kill themselves at once". But I can't do that, because such a song does not exist in the game :x
...although I'd really love that idea to be true xD BRD needs some love :3

[Ferrasper]

I look at the empire. Essentially, they are machinist in nature, and look at what they have created. Yes, they used old technology, but who is to say that SE won't eventually add in Allagan weaponry to the mix?

[Allyrion]

I look at the empire. Essentially, they are machinist in nature, and look at what they have created. Yes, they used old technology, but who is to say that SE won't eventually add in Allagan weaponry to the mix?

I agree MCH is pretty awesome. The Allagans and Garleans show how powerful technology can be.
But we are talking about individuals, a MCH doesn't represent such a broad concept as a technological society.
The OP was talking about stuff like 1 on 1. So we're just talking about one guy with gadgets.
Very strong gadgets, of course, but not the power of the Allagan or Garlean Empires.

I haven't done the new BLM quests so I don't have a good gauge for them.
The quests up to 50 didn't really show them as pure destruction though. That's what they represent in the FF series usually, but the actual quests didn't show that to me.

WHM was shown that they brought the end of an Era, so that's obviously strong.

I think SMN is also very strong.
Harnessing the power of Primals and channeling Bahamut, that's dealing with the things we consider the most dangerous plot wise.
Tapping into a primal's power is akin to becoming a demi-god, and they deal with things that can make or break the world.
It's based in Allagan tech too and one of their most impressive (and tragic) feats but

from the Tiamat conversation, they got that from the Ascians.

[Bhearil]

Also on monk 60 quest, their powerlevel goes far beyond the already lv 50 quest ridiculous levels with the 14 chakra opening giving Wolverine like regen plus hitting like the Fist of the North Star.

[PocketFreye]

Also on monk 60 quest, their powerlevel goes far beyond the already lv 50 quest ridiculous levels with the 14 chakra opening giving Wolverine like regen plus hitting like the Fist of the North Star.

Speaking of job quests, is there any place where we could read the level 60 quests of the other classes? Would love to read on their lore considering I won't be able to for a while because of how long the 50-60 grind is.

[Raminax]

Rawr!

Probably still too early for lots of people to have made things public knowledge, but I can share the White Mage details. Spoiler tags for the sensitive, au naturale.

You fight a Zombie Dragon, essentially a downscaled version of the Bone Dragon from the Labyrinth of the Ancients with the help of Raya-O-Senna, A-Ruhn-Senna and Eschiva. At the same time, you're purifying corrupted aether, which causes the Zombie Dragon to rise over and over again until the corrupted aether is gone.

The reason for this fight is that the antagonist Alaqa, an Au Ra woman (girl?) has been creating sources of twisted and corrupted aether to sustain her creation, because the Zombie Dragon is incapable of functioning without it. Tired and terrified of multiple acts of racism (going as far as physical violence and other 'unspeakable' things), she decided to take vengeance on the people of Eorzea by creating the Zombie Dragon and corrupted aether everywhere so that her creation could murder kill all of Eorzea.

After you defeat the Zombie Dragon and cleanse the corrupted aether sustaining its immortality, she loses all will to continue her vengeance and is taken into custody by the Wood Wailers, with some encouraging (or perhaps cynical, stupid humans being mean to the foreign!) words from Raya-O-Senna. A-Ruhn-Senna also decides to travel the world like A-Towa-Cant did before him, having been inspired by the player's acts of bringing succor and solace to whichever corner of the world needs it, rather than being restricted to the Twelveswood.

That's essentially it. Fairly standard as well-intentioned extremist stories go, but it does shed more light on the Au Ra (or just Xaela, Alaqa's wording is very vague, simply referring to her 'people' suffering racism), apparently having suffered their fair share of racism in Eorzea. Perhaps Yugiri wasn't too dumb to wear a mask.

[Wizarus]

Does SCH have prep?